The Greek Sceptics from Pyrrho to Sextus: An Essay which Obtained the Hare Prize in the Year 1868Macmillan, 1869 - 108 pages |
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... Greece . That outward circumstances and mental dispo- sitions act and re - act on one another , is a truth that has almost passed into a truism , but in Greece it was a fact pre - eminently true and important . There the tie which bound ...
... Greece . That outward circumstances and mental dispo- sitions act and re - act on one another , is a truth that has almost passed into a truism , but in Greece it was a fact pre - eminently true and important . There the tie which bound ...
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... Greece and the colonies in the Ægæan sea became a prize to be struggled for by the generals , who quarrelled over the heritage of Alexander : Magna Græcia was fast waning before the Sabellian and the Latin ; and Agathocles and the ...
... Greece and the colonies in the Ægæan sea became a prize to be struggled for by the generals , who quarrelled over the heritage of Alexander : Magna Græcia was fast waning before the Sabellian and the Latin ; and Agathocles and the ...
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... Greece he settled in Elis , and lived there in honourable poverty with his sister Philistia , a midwife . His fellow - citizens gave him a priesthood , and on his account exempted all philo- sophers from taxation . He died at the age of ...
... Greece he settled in Elis , and lived there in honourable poverty with his sister Philistia , a midwife . His fellow - citizens gave him a priesthood , and on his account exempted all philo- sophers from taxation . He died at the age of ...
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... Greece of the time of Socrates was nobler than the Greece of the time of Pyrrho . Pyrrho did not oppose his age nor rise very greatly above it , and was so much admired , just because he so nearly fulfilled the ideal of his age . His ...
... Greece of the time of Socrates was nobler than the Greece of the time of Pyrrho . Pyrrho did not oppose his age nor rise very greatly above it , and was so much admired , just because he so nearly fulfilled the ideal of his age . His ...
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... Greece pro- duced . I shall now proceed to trace the history of the latter . A knowledge of what it did and a slight discussion of what those taught , who under the Roman empire professed to revive Scepticism , will enable us to ...
... Greece pro- duced . I shall now proceed to trace the history of the latter . A knowledge of what it did and a slight discussion of what those taught , who under the Roman empire professed to revive Scepticism , will enable us to ...
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